The I-word

Submitted by Octavio Johanson (Italy), Mar 25, 2006 at 18:25

In Europe, immigration, has been the taboo subject for decades. It still is. The I-word cannot be mentioned and, if you break the taboo, you are in big trouble. We are paying for our sense of guilt over the colonial era and it is our way of apologizing for being an affluent society. If you do come to Europe, do not mention the I-word. Talk about the weather: it is safer.

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